Nick, you are right it is hard to add to these long forgotten Drive ind,but I just hate to write only sentence because these old passion pits deserve more than a line even if it is filler.
Nick, you are right it is hard to add to these long forgotten Drive ind,but I just hate to write only sentence because these old passion pits deserve more than a line even if it is filler.
I will include ads also from some of your favorite theatres. I read the Atlanta paper everyday until they quit selling them here,So much for “covering Dixie like the dew.” And any theatre article got clipped.
Looked over at what is left of NATIONAL HILLS the theatre itself is all that is standing.Everything else gone. The Marquee,Long gone. Box office, that beautiful lobby and concessions.Everything but the old theatre. Cold Georgia rain hitting the roof.THey cut every thing off that complete theatre like cancer.
If you were Drive by you could see the auditorium standing alone. I wish they would take a wrecking ball and put it out of its misery. It is a pity that theatre could have not been saved.But who has the money. And this story can be told I know in hundreds of cities in this great country.
Yassenoff owned several Drive ins in Columbus. WEST FIFTH AUTO, EAST SIDE DRIVE IN and Milton Yassenoff owned the SOUTH HI DRIVE IN in that city in 1956.
JGA, you might want to go to N.Dimaggio’s site he is from That area and knows one living projectionist still in the Tampa area,He might be able to help.
DIANE TWIN DRIVE IN THEATRE is now equipped with RADIO SOUND. “The best drive-in sound you have ever heard.”
It’s as easy as 1-2-3.
1.Pull up to a post and park.
2. Turn ignition to accessory position
3. Tune radio to 580 am or 88.5 fm.
The DIANE 29 had car speakers on front of concession.
ADMISSION was $3.00 adults.
IT was a FB Theatre when radio sound was in. Never heard of FB theatres.
Sure wish someone from that area could check on the above story.
I good friend took me to the lot the Fox was on;and this has been at least 10 years are longer. I took a viedo camera hoping to get something on film.Nothing but a Concession foundation and high weeds.
He took me to another closed Drive in in Charlotte and homeless people were living there so we drove on.
I noticed you were from North Carolina and had the Diane 29 Drive in listed as a favorite theatre,If you get a chance acouple of months ago i wrote about a story I was told about the Diane 29 Drive in and i wondered for years if the story was true,
I thought by now some of these drive in newshounds would have confirmed the story or nix it.
I found that picture of the theatre mentioned above it was called THE BECON and not far from the GA. FLA. line on US 1.SHOULD have wrote the name of the town on it.
Cliff, I found the pictures of the EXPRESSWAY Drive in. I only had one movie pass. I have quite a few articles i clipped thru the years on several Atlanta area theatres. If you will send me a letter with your address on it I will be glad to make Color copies for you and send copies of the closing of the 85 North Drive in. Just drop me a line.4594 Silverlake Drive Evans,Ga. 30809. I will have them in the mail to you the next day.
thanks Chuck, I figured it closed sometime around the late 70’s.don’t have anything else on the STARLITE or SWEETWATER Drive ins in Barnwell? Do you?
Had just a little bit more to add on this one.I was glad i found the TRUCK TURNER newspaper ad. Remember to do the Tenn.Drive-ins.thanks Nick.
Nick, you are right it is hard to add to these long forgotten Drive ind,but I just hate to write only sentence because these old passion pits deserve more than a line even if it is filler.
Nick, you are right it is hard to add to these long forgotten Drive ind,but I just hate to write only sentence because these old passion pits deserve more than a line even if it is filler.
Thanks Nick, Don’t forget HENDERSONVILLE OUTDOOR CINEMA,Itis some of my best writing.
FINALLY an offical list of old employees Favorite MOvies that played at NATIONAL HILLS THEATRE! Either 1st run or late shows.
Jim Neely… Jeremiah Johnson,2001, and Silent Running.
Bob Gordon Smith.. Smokey and the Bandit and Blazing Saddles.
Jerry Tinney…2001 and the Disney classics.
Tommy T.C. Capers .. SUMMER OF 42 and the COWBOYS.
Lewis Robertson…ON ANY SUNDAY
Mike Rogers…2001,Oliver, AllPres.Men, MagnumForce,Little Big Man and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Billy Barkley…SUMMER OF 42 and EASY RIDER
Mark Barkley….Right Stuff in 70mm and Close Encounters
Charles Bruni…Close Encounters and 2001
John Mackey…Longest Yard
Susan Shaver…Up The Sandbox
Mark CHEWY Kuchinski….Phantom of the ParaDise.
If they would only add stories…………
I will include ads also from some of your favorite theatres. I read the Atlanta paper everyday until they quit selling them here,So much for “covering Dixie like the dew.” And any theatre article got clipped.
Looked over at what is left of NATIONAL HILLS the theatre itself is all that is standing.Everything else gone. The Marquee,Long gone. Box office, that beautiful lobby and concessions.Everything but the old theatre. Cold Georgia rain hitting the roof.THey cut every thing off that complete theatre like cancer.
If you were Drive by you could see the auditorium standing alone. I wish they would take a wrecking ball and put it out of its misery. It is a pity that theatre could have not been saved.But who has the money. And this story can be told I know in hundreds of cities in this great country.
My 1956 ALMANAC shows 600 cars and was owned by Associated Drive-in : E. Stern.
In 1956 it parked 450 cars and was owned by W.Queen.
Man, this was a whopper of a drive in theatre! It parked 1000 cars and was owned by E.M. Loew.One of the larger drive-ins in that small state,
Yassenoff owned several Drive ins in Columbus. WEST FIFTH AUTO, EAST SIDE DRIVE IN and Milton Yassenoff owned the SOUTH HI DRIVE IN in that city in 1956.
Yes, the car capacity in 1956 was 400 and it was owned in the late 50’s by Frank Yassenoff.
JGA, you might want to go to N.Dimaggio’s site he is from That area and knows one living projectionist still in the Tampa area,He might be able to help.
DIANE TWIN DRIVE IN THEATRE is now equipped with RADIO SOUND. “The best drive-in sound you have ever heard.”
It’s as easy as 1-2-3.
1.Pull up to a post and park.
2. Turn ignition to accessory position
3. Tune radio to 580 am or 88.5 fm.
The DIANE 29 had car speakers on front of concession.
ADMISSION was $3.00 adults.
IT was a FB Theatre when radio sound was in. Never heard of FB theatres.
Sure wish someone from that area could check on the above story.
YOU think your salary might have been a little higher? I was making that much in1982 as an assistant.
RAY, a member named RAYSSON has Southside Cinema listed as one of his FAVORITE theatres. You outta go to his site and see SOUTHSIDE.
WAlMART is the WORST thing ever to happen to America. They sit on so many DRIVE INS.
I good friend took me to the lot the Fox was on;and this has been at least 10 years are longer. I took a viedo camera hoping to get something on film.Nothing but a Concession foundation and high weeds.
He took me to another closed Drive in in Charlotte and homeless people were living there so we drove on.
I noticed you were from North Carolina and had the Diane 29 Drive in listed as a favorite theatre,If you get a chance acouple of months ago i wrote about a story I was told about the Diane 29 Drive in and i wondered for years if the story was true,
I thought by now some of these drive in newshounds would have confirmed the story or nix it.
I found that picture of the theatre mentioned above it was called THE BECON and not far from the GA. FLA. line on US 1.SHOULD have wrote the name of the town on it.
Yes, many managers would live on the site in tiny apartments under the screen. that is not unheard of.
Cliff, go to the CAPRI theatre,Augusta, I have a post for you on the pictures you wanted.
Cliff, I found the pictures of the EXPRESSWAY Drive in. I only had one movie pass. I have quite a few articles i clipped thru the years on several Atlanta area theatres. If you will send me a letter with your address on it I will be glad to make Color copies for you and send copies of the closing of the 85 North Drive in. Just drop me a line.4594 Silverlake Drive Evans,Ga. 30809. I will have them in the mail to you the next day.
I found a picture i took of the marquee on the Varsity. MCDONALDS was in the space of the marquee.